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Evolution in Changing Environments: Some Theoretical Explorations. (MPB-2)

By Richard Levins

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780691209418
DOI
10.1515/9780691209418
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12348298 bytes)
Series
Monographs in Population Biology; 2
Pages
132\133
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 23:22:28

Description

Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the environment condition the responses of populations to long-term changes and geographic gradients. These in turn affect the way species divide the environments among themselves in communities, and, therefore, the numbers of species which can coexist. Environment is treated here abstractly as pattern: patchiness, variability, range, etc. Populations are studied in their patterns: local heterogeneity, geographic variability, faunistic diversity, etc.

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